No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.